For God's sake, can anyone explain what the hell these developers are doing with AI?

With each patch it has been getting even more pathetic.

First of all, I apologize for my English.

It doesn't matter if the majority of the community prefers to play online, these guys disregard for the AI is absurd, especially if you take into account that playing against the AI ​​on hard (no handcap) was a lot of fun at game launch last year.

That AI ​​exerted a lot of pressure by building Forts near their base and spitting out troops with a lot of intensity and intelligently diversifying units.

However, I didn't play for months and only came back in April. Right away I had already realized how different and passive the AI ​​was past year and no longer exerting pressure and building Forts.

Some said that there was a bug with the shipments and that they had disabled the AI ​​ability to get cards from Home Cities, but that was a long time ago. They didn't fix it at the time, passed several hotfixes and nothing. They never even mention anything else about AI. They made a mess of bugging the AI ​​and they don't fix it, they leave it anyway.

To make matters worse, I started playing again these days (I was 2 months without ) on account of the DLC African Royals, they not only hadn't fixed the AI, but it's EVEN worse.

Even more passive, always rush to Age 3, not exerting any attacks in the first few minutes. Still not building Forts, focusing insane now on making trading posts at any cost. Returned to focusing almost exclusively on Saloon/Desert Mercenaries units (as it was at the time of AOE 3 TWC), and sending out in large quantities, at the end of a match I just had, was the most recruited unit in stats (even worse than in the TWC).

It's too sad for those who like co-op comp stomp to see this situation.